articles
Metaphors for the Nile
Figuring Territory
15 August 2022
Figuring Territory
Maarten Delbeke. Visiting Scholar
Sub-series
AP116.S4.SS2
Description:
Sub-series documents the steps in the publication of Kojin Karatani's Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money, translated by Sabu Kohso, edited by Michael Speaks. Material in file was produced between 1993 and 1995. Sub-series contains various editions of the text, a computer diskette, correspondence, research material and a copy of the final publication.
1993-1995
Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money
Actions:
AP116.S4.SS2
Description:
Sub-series documents the steps in the publication of Kojin Karatani's Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money, translated by Sabu Kohso, edited by Michael Speaks. Material in file was produced between 1993 and 1995. Sub-series contains various editions of the text, a computer diskette, correspondence, research material and a copy of the final publication.
Sub-series 2
1993-1995
textual records, born digital
ARCH280008
Description:
Labelled: "Architecture as a Metaphor for Anyone; New Arch as Metaphor". File formats: Microsoft Word for Macintosh Document, unidentified file format, AppleDouble Resource Fork.
1993
Translated texts for Architecture as Metaphor book
Actions:
ARCH280008
Description:
Labelled: "Architecture as a Metaphor for Anyone; New Arch as Metaphor". File formats: Microsoft Word for Macintosh Document, unidentified file format, AppleDouble Resource Fork.
textual records, born digital
1993
textual records
Quantity:
2 file
ARCH252203
Description:
Typescripts of Kojin Karatani's Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money: Karatani, Archîtecture as Metaphor (Michael) Translation of (Architecture as Metaphor)
1993-1994?
Typescripts of Kojin Karatani's Architecture as Metaphor: Language
Actions:
ARCH252203
Description:
Typescripts of Kojin Karatani's Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money: Karatani, Archîtecture as Metaphor (Michael) Translation of (Architecture as Metaphor)
textual records
Quantity:
2 file
1993-1994?
books
ARCH240747
published 1995
books
published 1995
textual records, born digital
ARCH279976
Description:
No label or annotations. The floppy disk seems to have been misplaced in a file labelled "Bernard Cache: Kadinsky". File formats: Microsoft Word for Macintosh Document, unidentified file format, AppleDouble Resource Fork.
1994
Annotated footnotes for Architecture as Metaphor book
Actions:
ARCH279976
Description:
No label or annotations. The floppy disk seems to have been misplaced in a file labelled "Bernard Cache: Kadinsky". File formats: Microsoft Word for Macintosh Document, unidentified file format, AppleDouble Resource Fork.
textual records, born digital
1994
textual records
AP197.S1.SS6.043
1996
John Utzon: trancultural form and the tectonic metaphor by Kenneth Frampton
Actions:
AP197.S1.SS6.043
textual records
1996
Sub-series
L'anarchitetto (1973)
AP207.S3.SS01
Description:
The sub-series documents the publication "L'anarchitetto”, written by Pettena and published by Guaraldi, in Florence, in 1973. The book consists of an essay in which Pettena describes himself as an "anarchitect" as he sees architecture more as a metaphor of the creative condition that starts with the intention of "making architecture" but ends up making art. He also states his refusal to "to recognize the borders between disciplines." [1] The sub-series contains pictures of Pettena's projects to be selected from for the book and scans of "L'anarchitetto”. Sources: Pettena, Gianni. "L'an architetto : portrait of the artist as a young architect", Guaraldi, Florence, 1973, 57 pages. [1] FRAC Centre-Val de Loire website, http://www.frac-centre.fr/_en/art-and-architecture-collection/rub/rubauthors-316.html?authID=148 (last accessed 30 January 2020).
2001-2010
L'anarchitetto (1973)
Actions:
AP207.S3.SS01
Description:
The sub-series documents the publication "L'anarchitetto”, written by Pettena and published by Guaraldi, in Florence, in 1973. The book consists of an essay in which Pettena describes himself as an "anarchitect" as he sees architecture more as a metaphor of the creative condition that starts with the intention of "making architecture" but ends up making art. He also states his refusal to "to recognize the borders between disciplines." [1] The sub-series contains pictures of Pettena's projects to be selected from for the book and scans of "L'anarchitetto”. Sources: Pettena, Gianni. "L'an architetto : portrait of the artist as a young architect", Guaraldi, Florence, 1973, 57 pages. [1] FRAC Centre-Val de Loire website, http://www.frac-centre.fr/_en/art-and-architecture-collection/rub/rubauthors-316.html?authID=148 (last accessed 30 January 2020).
Subseries
2001-2010
Project
AP207.S1.1987.PR01
Description:
The project series documents "Paesaggi Della Memoria", an installation presented at the Castello Aragonese, in Otranto in 1987. The installation consists of a small mound of sand on which is placed a plastic open suitcase and plastic cuttings that represent the mountains from Pettena's childhood landscape. This work by Pettena is a "metaphor for any possible personal interpretation of the universal theme of the landscape, bestow on it an artistic significance, the charge carried by the values of poetry, of the memory of a space and a time that here also acquire, thanks to the context, the “Mediterranean” dimension, reinforced by the presence of sand and the essential character of the setting." [1] The project series contains sketches and installation photographs and videos. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/inst-landscapes-of-memory-1987/ (last accessed 11 December 2019).
circa 1987-2015
Paesaggi Della Memoria [Landscapes of Memory] (1987)
Actions:
AP207.S1.1987.PR01
Description:
The project series documents "Paesaggi Della Memoria", an installation presented at the Castello Aragonese, in Otranto in 1987. The installation consists of a small mound of sand on which is placed a plastic open suitcase and plastic cuttings that represent the mountains from Pettena's childhood landscape. This work by Pettena is a "metaphor for any possible personal interpretation of the universal theme of the landscape, bestow on it an artistic significance, the charge carried by the values of poetry, of the memory of a space and a time that here also acquire, thanks to the context, the “Mediterranean” dimension, reinforced by the presence of sand and the essential character of the setting." [1] The project series contains sketches and installation photographs and videos. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/inst-landscapes-of-memory-1987/ (last accessed 11 December 2019).
Project
circa 1987-2015